History of Greek mathematics: a survey of recent research

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(84)90024-7zbMath0554.01004OpenAlexW4206539452MaRDI QIDQ759732

J. Lennart Berggren

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(84)90024-7

zbMATH Keywords

surveygeometric algebraaxiomatic methodPtolemyArchimedesIndian mathematicsmethod of analysismethods in Greek mathematicsscientific instrumentstheory of irrationals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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